World Readers

Name: World Readers
Brand: Duke University Press
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History, Culture, Politics

By: Clifton Crais (Editor), Thomas V. McClendon (Editor)

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Paperback | 10 December 2013

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624 Pages

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The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and racial discrimination. Among the selections are folktales passed down through the centuries, statements by seventeenth-century Dutch colonists, the songs of mine workers, a widow's testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and a photo essay featuring the acclaimed work of Santu Mofokeng. Cartoons, songs, and fiction are juxtaposed with iconic documents, such as "The Freedom Charter" adopted in 1955 by the African National Congress and its allies and Nelson Mandela's "Statement from the Dock" in 1964. Cacophonous voices-those of slaves and indentured workers, African chiefs and kings, presidents and revolutionaries-invite readers into ongoing debates about South Africa's past and present and what exactly it means to be South African.

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"If the authors of this fascinating book wanted to put together a comprehensive, wholly informative and utterly readable guide to understanding and appreciating the history of South Africa, its cultures and its politics, and through it all its people, they have succeeded admirably. Within these pages are captured the voices of South Africans from every era, from every side of the political struggle, witnesses to that long road to freedom. From the earliest voices of colonial times through the struggle against apartheid, and the current struggles to find a genuinely democratic, nonracial, diverse identity - they are all here: the colonizers and the despoilers, the powerful and the powerless, the dissenters and the resisters, the deadly determined and the amazingly courageous, the destroyers of hope and the dreamers of dreams. In these pages, in the well-known speeches as well as the unknown, but delightfully surprising gems, South Africans cannot but completely recognize themselves. This is a book to study, to reflect on, to reference, and to turn to again and again just for the pure joy of reading." - Allan Aubrey Boesak, South African liberation theologian and anti-apartheid activist

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